Qasim Khan (Kazakh) (English spelling)

...They were called Özbeg-Qazaq, or simply Qazaq (meaning wanderers or adventurers), and they absorbed those who had left Uzbekistan and expanded their power to the Kipchak steppe (Kazakhstan). During the first half of the 16th century under Qāsim Khān (reigned 1511-23), their population grew to a great power of 300,000 to 1 million, and they eventually came to control a wide area from the Ural Mountains and the northwestern shore of the Caspian Sea in the west to Lake Balkhash in the east. They lived a nomadic life, and the ruling class was made up of princes, with the khan at the top. ...

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…彼らはウズベク･カザクÖzbeg‐Qazaq，あるいは単にカザクQazaq(放浪者，冒険者の意)と呼ばれ，ウズベクから離れた者をも吸収して，キプチャク草原(カザフスタン)に勢力を拡大していった。16世紀前半のカーシム･ハーンQāsim Khān(在位1511‐23)のときには，人口30万とも100万ともいわれる大勢力にふくれあがり，やがて，西はウラル山脈，カスピ海北西岸から，東はバルハシ湖までの広い領域を版図とするにいたった。彼らは遊牧生活を営み，ハーンを頂点とする王侯が支配階級を構成した。…

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